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About this typeface:

Randy Jones, designer of Olduvai, has teamed up with illustrator Kevin Cornell to create this gorgeous new font family. Phaeton, like Olduvai, evokes the freshness and uniqueness of hand-drawn type, yet allows for easy typesetting. A high-waisted, condensed serif face with a distinct Victorian flavor. Featuring cupped serifs and ball terminals on some characters. The font’s nearly 600 characters includes a large number of alternates, ornaments, decorative banners, picto-glyphs, swash capitals, and 49 wordmark glyphs for ‘and,’ ‘the,’ ‘with’ and many more. Wow.

About the designers:

Randy Jones is California-based freelance graphic designer and principal of Aquatoad Design. Having learned to draw letters under the guidance of the Ed Benguiat at School of Visual Arts, he now spends much of his time hunched over his Mac adjusting kerning pairs. Randy would like to thank his family for being patient with his type neurosis, which frequently disrupts social outings via spontaneous font commentary. You can find out more about him at www.aquatoad.com

Kevin Cornell is an illustrator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He maintains the websites www.bearskinrug.co.uk and www.thesuperest.com, both of which feature a variety of hand-drawn sample type. The majority of his time is spent producing books, the most recent being a graphic novel version of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which greatly influenced the creation of Phaeton.

This package contains:

Phaeton

Copyright © Randy Jones / Aquatoad Design